Violette Impellizzeri to head astronomy and operations department
We are excited that Dr Violette Impellizzeri will join ASTRON as head of the Astronomy & Operations department. She will start her new duties on 1 September 2024. Her research focus is on VLBI investigations of the molecular gas enveloping black holes and spectral line analyses.
New calibration technique circumvents Earth’s ionosphere
An international team of researchers has developed a new calibration technique to circumvent disturbances of Earth’s ionosphere.
ASTRON has turned 75!
75 years ago today, SRZM (Stichting Radiostraling van Zon en Melkweg/Netherlands Foundation for Radio Astronomy) was founded. This organization would later become ASTRON.
ASTRON launches database of female experts
Today marks International Women’s Day. This year’s theme is ‘Inspire Inclusion’.
Colloquium: What can we learn from radio magnetars?
© Gregory Desvignes
Magnetars are young and highly magnetized neutron stars, powered by the decay of their large magnetic field. They exhibit a wide variety of X-ray activity but only a fraction of them are known to emit in radio waves. Since the discovery of an extremely bright radio burst from the Galactic magnetar SGR 1935+2154, magnetars are now widely assumed to be the most likely progenitors of the extragalactic Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs). In this talk, I will review our recent observational results on radio magnetars and discuss the link to FRBs.Open Dag: 6 oktober/Open Day: October 6th
Sun 06 Oct 2024
English follows Dutch Bezoek ons tijdens onze open dag op 6 oktober Hoe klinkt een dode ster? Hoe maak je onzichtbaar licht zichtbaar? Hoe werkt een zwart gat? Waarom kun je met een radiotelescoop terug in de tijd kijken? Achter al deze en nog veel meer interessante dingen kom je tijdens onze open dag […]